Multiples - the Show at Moyhu

An exhibition and show called Multiples is to open on Saturday evening, November 29. It will then be open as a community event on the Sunday and again on Tuesday, December 2 aimed at Great Victorian Bike Ride participants.
Multiples will be held in and around the workshop of Humphrey Poland and Associates in Bartley St, Moyhu. This exhibition is about creativity and will feature: photographic images with multiple themes, handmade furniture, sculpture derived from industrial patterns, handmade lights and Anzac Day cards. It will be accompanied by a light and projection show covering adjacent buildings, trees and the Moyhu water tower. Faces of audience members will also be projected onto the tower.
The main participants in the exhibition are Bill Walker and John Comeadow, both theatre and lighting veterans. Hugh McSpedden, a projection legend will both exhibit and do shows. Humphrey Poland, Collin Musto, Stuart Sinclair and Joshua Lewis will also be exhibiting.
The exhibition is to be opened by Naomi Cass, director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne and Kevin Murray former director, Craft Victoria.

For FREE opening night tickets go: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/multiples-the-show-opening-night-tickets-14238223911

Accomodation:
http://kingvalley.org.au/accommodation
www.visitwangaratta.com.au/accommodation
Free camping beside the King River at the beautiful nearby Edi Cutting.

The biographica us:

Hugh McSpedden is a living treasure of the projection world and Steampunk legend. He was an early exponent in Victoria of psychedelic projection shows. He covered the exterior of the Exhibition Buildings with kinetic polka dots in 1983 and was the first Australian person to cover buildings with imagery. He pioneered the field developing both the techniques and equipment when it was all by hand. He once owned the brightest slide projector on Earth. He has worked with The Monkees, Tangerine Dream, Spectrum, Daddy Cool, Hunters & Collectors, David Gulpilil and at the TFMuch Ballroom, Sunbury Pop Festival and Sydney Biennale. That was a very small selection of names taken from a long, long list. He has a huge collection of foundry patterns.

As a student Bill Walker managed the Alexandra Theatre at Monash University before production managing Barry Humphries’ first shows. His career in theatrical production encompassed the major Australian Opera Companies, the London Palladium and the original Jesus Christ Superstar. He was early worker on inflatable sets and contributed to shows by Tully, Billy Thorpe, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, the Balinese Dancers amongst others. After a period as a lecturer at NIDA he left theatre to pursue a career as a ship’s engineer on a sailing ship trading the Pacific. He has a deep interest in Melanesian Culture and until fairly recently lived in Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. He is a long term photographer with an interesting eye and deep technical expertise and has worked with multiple images over many years. A recent project was to document the world international container trade by shipping as supercargo on container ship between Asia, Europe and back.

A Euroa boy, John Comeadow attended Monash Uni and Swinburne Film & Television before he began his lighting career in the Princess Theatre. Having left the Prinny he worked with most major Australian theatre Companies including time with the Australian Ballet. After a spell at the Comedy Café he worked with Multi Skill Design Studios in the Brunswick Street workshop where he further developed his furniture making skills. He left to become the Lecturer in Theatre Lighting at the Victorian College of the Arts and taught there for eleven years before retiring. John still maintains an interest in photography, lighting, carpentry and old things.

Humphrey Poland is a registered builder & designer. In previous lives he was fire & emergency services officer, yacht skipper, diver, boat builder, model maker, a Kiwi and a truck driver. He was a founding partner in the Flying Trapeze Café theatre restaurant in the early 70’s and later worked with the Comedy Café. He ran Multi Skill Design Studios in Brunswick St Fitzroy during the 80’s. He has been doing several long term photographic projects involving multiples. He keeps bees & lives in Moyhu.

Collin Musto is a sculptor from a Western Australian family of architects. He originally trained as a sail maker and has worked with Humphrey as far back as the boat building days. He sculpted the truly large & truly amazing ‘Ronnie’ using marble from Micheangelo’s quarry. This used tools, techniques and equipment copied from Rodin’s studio. Ronnie as in Regan. He is believed to be the first person in about a 1500 or years to do ‘no gap no grout’ glass mosaics.

Stuart Sinclair has a degree in Photography from RMIT. He worked in the entertainment production industry for about ten years before becoming the carpentry apprentice at Humphrey Poland & Associates. Stuart recently spent a year living and working in Moyhu and the North East.

Joshua Lewis is a Winton boy. A natural engineer with Humphrey Poland & Associates he is a noted collector and a creative Festival animatronics person.